First Woman Selected for Top Computer Science Award

First Woman Selected for Top Computer Science Award: The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the winner of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for her work in computer science. Allen’s research has helped improve computer capacity for problem-solving and has enhanced the use of high-performance computing. Named for the British mathematician Dr. Alan M. Turing, the award is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computing and gets financial backing from Intel. Allen is the first woman to receive the award, which also comes with a $100,000 prize.